To be a passionate creator is the blessing and the cure...(not curse). Ignored or silenced, verus nurtured, the brave mind suffers. Dare to fall over the edge, again and again.
Be the waterfall.
Boisterous.
Peaceful with itself.
Never pacified.
- hiked down to our local waterfall, Casade Falls, last evening.
What adds so much significance to the work of Rilke is the work of one of his main translators: Joana Macy.
She has absolutely transformed social movements all of the world, and she shows the power of poetry to change the world far beyond just the immediate affective shock that poems like this can have.
What Rilke knows is the spiralling quality of moving through the world, growing, becoming something more than we might imagine.
My best friend, about half my age, recently nearly got bumped off. He had been warned a few weeks earlier by friends in the know, that contracts had been taken out on his life because of his political activities where he live-in America. He's non-partisan, does not. attend church. Just says what he thinks needs to be said, stirs the pots that don't like being stirred, He provides information to law enforcement and prosecutors, and so forth.
After the attempt to kill him, which really fucked him up physically, and other ways, he experienced spontaneously raw, round, open wounds on both of his palms - the Stigmata, which very few people experienced and lived long afterward. St. Francis of Assisi experience all of the Stigmata wounds. My friend had tracked me online for several years before angels made him get in touch with me. Then, his life started changing, and it kept changing, which is what happens after angels decide to be the boss of you :-).
My friend does the tech work for The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast, which we now launch into the Torrent system, which we found far more accepting and adventuresome than You Tube. Torrent platform owners and their clients prefer more offbeat material, if it's free, and has no advertising, which is what we offer. My friend also discovered the free internet library, archive.org, which likes free, different kind of writings. My friend put all but the very first of my metaphysical books into that library. He's portably the smartest person I ever met, can figure out how to do just about anything.
We still launch podcasts onto YouTube, so I can get a link to share with other people. However, Yout/ube rejected our podcast on Israel and the attack on my friend. They said they have to protect their creators and their employees from injury, yet my friend discovered YouTube let its big advertiser clients discuss Israel, and it let its clients that make a lot of money podcasting, discuss Israel.
Our Israel-Hamas podcast is beyond hot. "Stigmata and bad men in America & Armageddon trap or peace in Palestine?" If you know how to use Torrent, you can find it there and watch it. Our next previous podcast, Yout/ube accepted, but made us take "sorry piece of shit" out of the tilte, and replace it with "worthless fecal matter." :-). "Trump: the worthless fecal matter New York trust fund baby that destroyed the American dollar" Here's a link to that podcast. https://youtu.be/uOUPW1TmALw
The power of embracing transformation. The only way a creative survives I think.
Yes!
I completely agree wirh you
Inspired. Reminder to self: reread Rilke.
To be a passionate creator is the blessing and the cure...(not curse). Ignored or silenced, verus nurtured, the brave mind suffers. Dare to fall over the edge, again and again.
Be the waterfall.
Boisterous.
Peaceful with itself.
Never pacified.
- hiked down to our local waterfall, Casade Falls, last evening.
Enchanting
Mesmerizing
Always in flow.
Centuries of endurance.
Perhaps millennia.
For my visual anthem (tm) poem
La Cascadia and image
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By noon, today
Sneak peek photos have been posted
Yes I must do some re-reading too. In original German it’s even better.
“…dares you to become the wind.”
Thank you.
change is the only certainty, everything else is calcification and then
"What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered"
drink me up like a puddle
There is no better than Rilke. Wonderful, thank you.
Nice.
What adds so much significance to the work of Rilke is the work of one of his main translators: Joana Macy.
She has absolutely transformed social movements all of the world, and she shows the power of poetry to change the world far beyond just the immediate affective shock that poems like this can have.
What Rilke knows is the spiralling quality of moving through the world, growing, becoming something more than we might imagine.
More here: https://gregfrey.substack.com/p/thank-you-joanna-macy
Hmmm, the flame.
My best friend, about half my age, recently nearly got bumped off. He had been warned a few weeks earlier by friends in the know, that contracts had been taken out on his life because of his political activities where he live-in America. He's non-partisan, does not. attend church. Just says what he thinks needs to be said, stirs the pots that don't like being stirred, He provides information to law enforcement and prosecutors, and so forth.
After the attempt to kill him, which really fucked him up physically, and other ways, he experienced spontaneously raw, round, open wounds on both of his palms - the Stigmata, which very few people experienced and lived long afterward. St. Francis of Assisi experience all of the Stigmata wounds. My friend had tracked me online for several years before angels made him get in touch with me. Then, his life started changing, and it kept changing, which is what happens after angels decide to be the boss of you :-).
My friend does the tech work for The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast, which we now launch into the Torrent system, which we found far more accepting and adventuresome than You Tube. Torrent platform owners and their clients prefer more offbeat material, if it's free, and has no advertising, which is what we offer. My friend also discovered the free internet library, archive.org, which likes free, different kind of writings. My friend put all but the very first of my metaphysical books into that library. He's portably the smartest person I ever met, can figure out how to do just about anything.
We still launch podcasts onto YouTube, so I can get a link to share with other people. However, Yout/ube rejected our podcast on Israel and the attack on my friend. They said they have to protect their creators and their employees from injury, yet my friend discovered YouTube let its big advertiser clients discuss Israel, and it let its clients that make a lot of money podcasting, discuss Israel.
Our Israel-Hamas podcast is beyond hot. "Stigmata and bad men in America & Armageddon trap or peace in Palestine?" If you know how to use Torrent, you can find it there and watch it. Our next previous podcast, Yout/ube accepted, but made us take "sorry piece of shit" out of the tilte, and replace it with "worthless fecal matter." :-). "Trump: the worthless fecal matter New York trust fund baby that destroyed the American dollar" Here's a link to that podcast. https://youtu.be/uOUPW1TmALw
Inspiring
Blessings to everyone to share their poetic spirit. Dave Pi
“...Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking...”
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Yes and something about Rilke's understanding of the way life spirals rather than circles
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